RANSVESTIA

sitting in front of the enormous window overlooking the city. Like Eddie, she ate ravenously, while constantly glancing out at the deep blue sky and the red and white helicopters that seemed to whirl right by their window.

"I'll get dressed now," said Eddie, his hunger overcome. Allison had had a funny look on her face. "Your servant had better return my clothes."

Allison wrinkled her nose. "You wouldn't like them now," she said. Eddie looked inquisitively at her. "They're at the bottom of the garbage chute."

Eddie felt anger rising in him. "Which means..." he began.

"Which means, darling Roxanne," said Allison sweetly, "that after another visit to my bedroom, where I expect you to rape me again, I'll do what I said I would do, and put you in girl's clothes perma- nently."

When Eddie-Roxanne arrived at the club that night, his hair com- pletely re-styled in a soft, blown cut, but blonde streaked, and required no more of the firm hair spray, the other impersonators gawked. His silk blouse, mini-skirt and hose were just like the others. "Oh-h," said Audrey, dressed already in her negligee and nightdress. "He's just like one of us now." Eddie looked about and caught the general air of disappointment in everyone, save for Karen, who smiled wickedly at him, stuck out her tongue, and sensuously licked the corners of her mouth. Furious, Eddie was about to say something when Kiki called to him. "Hurry up, Roxanne, you have to be ready when curtain's up, remember?"

After his show, he was able to maneuver Kiki to one side for a chat. "What gives with the others?" he said, watching Kiki arrange her panty hose beneath her pleated dress. "Why are they so dis- appointed with me for wearing drag on the street?"

Kiki stopped fidgeting, checked that no-one was near and then spoke quietly. "You've started on the downward path, Roxanne." She lit a cigarrette and pulled up a chair to the edge of Eddie's cubicle, watching Eddie put away his stage clothes. "First, you dress as a girl because you feel good. Then you want to be doing it all the time. You